TIME magazine paid tribute to former President Corazon Aquino, featuring her again on the cover of its Aug. 17 issue.
Calling Mrs. Aquino “The Saint of Democracy,” Time recalled how the former housewife became the country’s and Asia’s first female president through People Power in 1986 and inspired the rest of the world:
“The only weapon she possessed was moral courage. But with it she discovered a groundbreaking truth: that a populace holding nothing more than candles and rosary beads could face a cavalcade of tanks, topple a dictator and, most improbable of all, usher in democracy.”
Mrs. Aquino died of colon cancer on Aug. 1 and was laid to rest on Wednesday.
Read Time’s special report on Mrs. Aquino:
- Corazon Aquino 1933-2009: The Saint of Democracy
- A Miracle Worker in a Plain Yellow Dress
- ‘I Am Not Going to Surrender.’